In Search of Basic Units of Spoken Language
A corpus-driven approach
Editors
Shlomo Izre'el | Tel Aviv UniversityHeliana Mello | Federal University of Minas GeraisAlessandro Panunzi | University of Florence - LABLITATommaso Raso | Federal University of Minas Gerais
What is the best way to analyze spontaneous spoken language? In their search for the basic units of spoken language the authors of this volume opt for a corpus-driven approach. They share a strong conviction that prosodic structure is essential for the study of spoken discourse and each bring their own theoretical and practical experience to the table. In the first part of the book they segment spoken material from a range of different languages (Russian, Hebrew, Central Pomo (an indigenous language from California), French, Japanese, Italian, and Brazilian Portuguese). In the second part of the book each author analyzes the same two spoken English samples, but looking at them from different perspectives, using different methods of analysis as reflected in their respective analyses in Part I. This approach allows for common tendencies of segmentation to emerge, both prosodic and segmental.
[Studies in Corpus Linguistics, 94] 2020. xi, 440 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgments | pp. xi–xii
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Introduction. In search of a basic unit of spoken language: Segmenting speechShlomo Izre’el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso | pp. 1–32
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Part I
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Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse: Local structure and prosodyAndrej A. Kibrik, Nikolay A. Korotaev and Vera I. Podlesskaya | pp. 35–76
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Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax: A View from spontaneous spoken HebrewShlomo Izre’el | pp. 77–106
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Chapter 3. Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous languageMarianne Mithun | pp. 107–126
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Chapter 4. Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken FrenchJeanne-Marie Debaisieux and Philippe Martin | pp. 127–154
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Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in JapaneseTakehiko Maruyama, Yasuharu Den and Hanae Koiso | pp. 155–180
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Chapter 6. The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act TheoryEmanuela Cresti | pp. 181–220
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Chapter 7. Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech: An account of insubordinated adverbial clauses in Brazilian PortugueseGiulia Bossaglia, Heliana Mello and Tommaso Raso | pp. 221–256
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Chapter 8. Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguisticsMira B. Bergelson and Mariya V. Khudyakova | pp. 257–284
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Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languagesPlínio A. Barbosa | pp. 285–300
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Part II
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Same texts, different approaches to segmentation: An introduction to the second part of the volumeShlomo Izre’el, Heliana Mello, Alessandro Panunzi and Tommaso Raso | pp. 303–308
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Chapter 1. Segmentation and analysis of the two English excerpts: The Brazilian team proposalTommaso Raso, Plínio A. Barbosa, Frederico A. Cavalcante and Maryualê M. Mittmann | pp. 309–326
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Chapter 2. Analysis of two English spontaneous speech examples with the dependency incremental prosodic structure modelPhilippe Martin | pp. 327–336
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Chapter 3. Applying criteria of spontaneous Hebrew speech segmentation to EnglishShlomo Izre’el | pp. 337–348
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Chapter 4. Basic units of speech segmentationMarianne Mithun | pp. 349–358
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Chapter 5. Segmentation of the English texts Navy and Hearts with SUU and LUUTakehiko Maruyama | pp. 359–366
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Chapter 6. The Moscow approach to local discourse structure: An application to EnglishAndrej A. Kibrik, Nikolay A. Korotaev and Vera I. Podlesskaya | pp. 367–382
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Chapter 7. Some notes on the Hearts and Navy excerpts according to the Language into Act TheoryEmanuela Cresti and Massimo Moneglia | pp. 383–402
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Chapter 8. Comparing annotations for the prosodic segmentation of spontaneous speech: Focus on reference unitsAlessandro Panunzi, Lorenzo Gregori and Bruno Rocha | pp. 403–432
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Index | pp. 433–440
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Chapter 1. Russian spoken discourse
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Chapter 2. The basic unit of spoken language and the interfaces between prosody, discourse and syntax
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Chapter 3. Prosody and the organization of information in Central Pomo, a California indigenous language
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Chapter 4. Syntactic and prosodic segmentation in spoken French
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Chapter 5. Design and annotation of two-level utterance units in Japanese
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Chapter 6. The pragmatic analysis of speech and its illocutionary classification according to the Language into Act Theory
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Chapter 7. Illocution as a unit of reference for spontaneous speech
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Chapter 8. Narrative discourse segmentation in clinical linguistics
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Chapter 9. Cross-linguistic comparison of automatic detection of speech breaks in read and narrated speech in four languages
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Subjects & Metadata
BIC Subject: CFH – Phonetics, phonology
BISAC Subject: LAN011000 – LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Phonetics & Phonology